Sentences with phrase «by playing doctor»

Many kids overcome their fear of medical check - ups by playing doctor.

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In fact, Cameron's deep dive around 2000 into the rich material about a cyborg named Alita (played in the movie by Rose Salazar) who tries to rediscover her past after being found in a garbage heap by a cybernetics doctor, wasn't just going to be a single movie but a franchise.

Far those who would become lost in the intoxication of creative work (for the doctor or professor or farmer who works joyously), the play of the Sabbath is a reminder that we can not find ultimate meaning by mastering life.

It's because there is literally a Ninth Doctor and a Tenth Doctor — all played by different actors.

Over at Dr. Vino, probably the best wine blog on the internet, Tyler Coleman (who actually is the Doctor himself) gives the play by play of an exclusive blind tasting of some of the 2005 Bordeaux with the great Robert Parker.

Former Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston plays the most recognisably Christian character; a former minister whose faith is severely tested by the fact that he has been «left behind» in an apparent rapture.

Camus planned and completed a second cycle of works: the novel The Plague, in which the heroic Doctor Rieux strives, despite ultimate futility, against human suffering and death; the play The Misunderstanding, a kind of Greek tragedy in which a young man returns home in disguise, having made his fortune, only to be murdered and robbed by his mother and sister; and the highly influential cultural analysis The Rebel.

The instructions to limit the forward's court time were handed to down to Woodson by team doctors after he played a season - high 28 minutes in Monday's loss to the Boston Celtics.

If Rose really cared what the doctors said to him, he'd probably be playing by now, but he's not, and there's little reason to believe anything is going to change.

The Chelsea skipper, who has been troubled by a nerve problem in his right leg, last night revealed he has played through the pain barrier since the end of last season — but now wants doctors to find a cure.

He was taken out of the game after the third quarter, but was he cleared to play by team doctors during halftime?

It's also worth noting that Chris Paul has been medically cleared by team doctors to play again, and could return to the court tonight.

By ignoring the facets, Bonati said that Woods» doctors ensured their patient will «be in pain and he is going to be very dissatisfied with the surgery and he is not going to be able to perform and his quality of playing [will] suffer.»

CAR TALK aside, you now know this: Tiger Woods, just weeks removed from stating his career might be over and only recently cleared by doctors to hit full shots, is going to play professional golf again.

People are blaming Jones but if the English team team doctors did notify Utd of what was going on as the FA claims and there was no objection from Utd.Jones probably thought he had the green light to play, he's a committed lad by the sounds of it no one thought the injury was that serious.

This what Eduardo told Sportske Novosti» I am returning to Europe from Brazil at the beginning of August, perhaps even the end of July,» «Doctors tell me by then I will be fully recovered and able to play football again.

The new official statement is adapted from a concept developed by Courson, along with Bert Mandelbaum, MD, and Lawrence J. Lemak, MD, using a terms common in both sports and medicine: coaches and athletes call time outs to gather a team together and discuss game strategies or to call a play, while, in medicine, doctors take a time out immediately before every surgery when all operating room participants stop to verify the procedure, patient identity, correct site and side.

The survey also found that eight in ten support a requirement that an athlete be evaluated and cleared by a doctor before being allowed to return to play sports after suffering a concussion (as is now required by law, at least at the high school level, in virtually every state).

Alfred Sacchetti, an emergency room doctor in Camden, New Jersey, and spokesman for the American College of Emergency Physicians, says it's common for parents to worry more about their child being abducted by a stranger than about his riding in a car without a seat belt or playing near an ungated swimming pool — even though car - and water - related accidents pose a far greater threat to kids than abduction.

If an athlete hits his or her head and is then slower than baseline by even a fraction of a second at reading off the numbers, Dr. Galetta said, it is very probable he or she has a concussion and needs to be taken from play and seen by a doctor.

Recently, I was asked a series of questions by a newspaper journalist for a story on a concussed athlete who had decided to quit football despite being cleared by the team doctor to return to play.

Engage in Conversations and Oral Story Telling - Capitalize on down time such as the waiting room at a doctor's appointment or while getting the oil changed in the car by engaging in conversation, telling stories, or playing word games with your child.

We can help by talking to our toddlers about kindness, showing sympathy and care when teddies «get hurt», playing role - play doctor / nurse games and talking to them about other people's feelings if they've hurt or upset another child.

When you are in the car, waiting in the doctor's office, or even sitting in a restaurant, keep your toddler busy by playing I Spy!

And while La Leche League isn't the only reason more and more women breast - feed their newborns every year, the organization has played a crucial role in turning the tide for breast - feeding simply by telling women they could do it even though doctors - and their own mothers - were saying maybe not.

In addition, even though your baby is steadily growing, he or she still isn't big enough to make you feel weighed down, meaning exercise and staying active can still very much be in play unless otherwise directed by your doctor.

There are also numerous socio - cultural aspects such as the gender - specific role behaviour learned by men and women which plays a part during routine examinations by doctors.

I had a concussion in high school, I had a concussion — and I played linebacker in high school and then played only as a quarterback in college — but after my second concussion, the last game of my senior year in college, I was being looked at by the neurologist, the doctor at Yale, and he asked me if I had any aspirations of going onto play, and I said, «No, I don't» And he said, «Good, two concussions is enough.»

He urges patients to play a larger role by asking their doctor two questions: Do I really need this antibiotic?

It usually takes an experienced doctor to spot the signs by analysing video footage of the child playing — a costly and time - consuming process.

Webster once went six seasons without missing a single offensive play; later, when asked by a doctor if he had ever been involved in a car crash, he replied: «Oh, probably about 25,000 times or so.»

Researchers, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, say non-specialist health workers (such as doctors, nurses or lay health workers) not formally trained in mental health or neurology, and other professionals with health roles, such as teachers, may have an important role to play in delivering MNS health care.

The research team notes that doctors and patients can play a role in decreasing antibiotic resistance by using antibiotics judiciously and through research that identifies the most effective antibiotics for specific conditions such as endophthalmitis.

While all of these factors seemed to play some role in the rates of genetic testing among black and white patients, the most important factor, by far, turned out to be something more disturbing: the doctors» behavior.

Among other measures, the High School Sports Brain Injury Prevention Act would require student athletes to be cleared by a doctor before returning to play or practice.

Through the thriller's first six episodes, we see the sad - sack lawyer (played expertly by John Turturro) scratching his eczema - ridden skin with chopsticks, visiting a succession of not - very - sensitive doctors, and subjecting his feet to a string of seemingly suspect remedies, including slathering them with Crisco, bathing them in Clorox, and roasting them under UV lamps.

If you take a sleep aid, play it safe by letting your doctor know about any other prescription and over-the-counter medications (as well as herbal remedies) you're using.

It will be taught by Dr. Mark Menolascino and Dr. Geo Espinosa, who will both deliver webinars as well as play the role of the doctors in the demonstrations.

Still, Brennan says, the message that the program's doctor (played by Keanu Reeves) tries to get across rings true.

However, it is always better to get it confirmed by a doctor if you are suffering from any health issues and are on prescription drugs as all such supplements can play havoc with the medicines and sometimes can have unwanted side effects.

How to Help Yourself Because headaches can be caused by so many factors and combinations of factors, even with your doctor's help it may ultimately be up to you to play detective and figure out what is triggering your headaches.

Never thought that we meet a Doctor's Diary Marc Meier, M.D. lookalike (played by Florian David Fitz) in real life.

There's also a cosmic injustice to casting Peter Capaldi, who lit up the screen with beautiful vitriol in In the Loop and «The Thick of It,» as a stock doctor that could have been played by any old man in a sweater.

«White Shadow,» the first feature from Berlin - based Israeli filmmaker Noaz Deshe, which plays Sundance this weekend having already picked up the Best Debut award in Venice, mired us deep in this quandary, being a story, bruisingly told, set in the horrifying world of «albino hunting» in Tanzania, where local superstitions have led to a lucrative trade in albino body parts believed by witch doctors to have mystical properties.

J. Michael Straczynski's original script was jettisoned in favor of an unfinished one by political thriller specialist Matthew Michael Carnahan (State of Play, Lions for Lambs), with «LOST» - alum script doctors Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods, Cloverfield) and Damon Lindelof (Star Trek Into Darkness, Prometheus) brought in later to write a host of reshoots, including a new climax and ending to the film (the repeated use and imbibing of Pepsi products during these scenes would indicate the source for much of the additional reshoot budget), that pushed the release date from a winter of 2012 release to the summer of 2013.

This man is a reputable doctor, played by Ben Kingsley.

Sidney Greenstreet plays the old Arliss role as automobile tycoon James P. Alden, forced into involuntary retirement by his well - meaning wife Minerva (Barbara Brown) and family doctor Harvey (Howard Freeman).

In Ann Vickers (1933), she plays a lady doctor who undergoes an illegal abortion, and in The Age of Innocence (1934), Dunne played the same role reprised by Michelle Pfeiffer in the 1994 remake of that film.

Though the film is called Coco, the main character is actually Miguel (Gonzalez, The Bridge), a twelve - year - old Mexican boy who has big dreams of one day becoming a famous musician, much like the romantic legendary guitar playing movie star, Ernesto de la Cruz (voiced by Bratt, Doctor Strange).

Besides Raleigh, there is a contentious, almost father - daughter relationship with her aging spymaster Walsingham, still ably played by Geoffrey Rush but with unfortunately not enough to do, and her reliance on her spiritual advisor Doctor Dee (David Threlfall), one of the few areas of the film that works completely in and of itself.